I had only visited a couple of the Munising waterfalls
before and wanted to see and photograph more of them this trip. We had
evening plans in Mackinaw City, so we couldn't go to all the Alger County
falls, but we could see those which are immediately in and around Munising.

I first saw the 50' tall Munising Falls in March,
when they were frozen and the short hike to the falls was snow covered
and slippery. This time it was much easier to visit. Though as is true
of many of the falls in this part of the Upper Peninsula, while Munising
Falls is very beautiful to experience, it is hard to photograph because
of the vegetation and nearby cliffs. Later in the day when the sunlight
can reach the falls, photography may be better.

There is also a Munising Falls Visitor Center, staffed
with a ranger of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Munising Falls Creek leading away from the falls

The trail to Tannery Falls was more challenging
and harder to find. The trail is off of H-58 (E. Munising Avenue), about
a mile east of Downtown Munising, but there is no sign on the highway.
The trail to the falls is accessed from a staircase that leads east from
the highway, across from the Washington Street turnoff for Munising Falls.

The trail does not appear to be heavily used and we saw
no one else during our visit. It was about 1000' to the falls. Other than
mosquitos, it was very pleasant.

Stairs leading to the trail from H-58

Only a few places along the trail show improvements, but it was reassuring
that we were going the correct way.

First glimpse of Tannery Falls

Looking up at the 40' high falls

Linda photographing the waterfall and the cliff which is falls over.

The green moss, ferns and trees surrounding Tannery Falls add a lot
to the experience of being there in person.

We returned to our car, drove a few blocks farther northeast
on H-58 and turned off on Nestor Street, where we parked next to the sign
in the first photo on this page. Both the previous falls and Memorial
Falls are on the same Michigan Nature Association sanctuary. The trail
and the walk to memorial Falls was much easier, but it led to the top of
the falls and was blocked odd, so we could not go around to the base of
the falls for better views.

This falls is also about 40' and the setting is similar
to Tannery Falls and the sanctuary is called Twin Waterfalls Memorial.

Top of Memorial Falls - the bridge is for the trail leading to the
falls.

This was our best view down into the gorge to see the rest of the falls.